Job Description

Salford Children's Speech & Language Therapy Service is looking to recruit a creative and flexible Speech and Language Therapist to work as part of our schools team.



You will be part of a friendly, experienced department who work closely with families and partner agencies to support children and young people's speech, language and communication needs. We have a well-established service providing a 'balanced system' across Salford delivering universal, targeted and specialist levels of support.



This role will involve delivery of clinical interventions in primary, high schools and clinic and supporting and delivering our training offer to schools, parents/carers, and colleagues. The post holder will receive supervision, support and mentoring from a range of experienced SLTs across the service.

Main duties:

To deliver universal, targeted and specialist clinical work as part of the Speech and Language Therapy Schools Team.

To assess and diagnose conditions and to plan and implement specialist Speech and Language Therapy programmes of care and treatment and discharge appropriately, using evidence-based practice.

To work collaboratively with parents, carers and educators and to support children with a range of communication needs.

To demonstrate clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.

Due to the nature of the post you will need to be able to travel to different sites as required by the service.



The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.



As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.



In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.



To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk